Abstract
A single failure time distribution (FTD) may not be a good model
for describing the system characteristics in case failures patterns are
subjected to many causes. And, this suggests strongly that the
population is not homogeneous but rather is made up of several
subpopulations mixed in unknown proportions. Since, instantaneous/
immediate failures are a natural occurrence and such failures usually
discard the assumption of a unimodel distribution and hence the usual
method of modeling and inference procedures may not be accurate in
practice such failures are called inliers. The inconsistency of such
life data is modeled using a non-standard mixture of distributions by
considering the FTD as Lindley distribution. Further, likelihood
estimation of the unknown parameters of model along with Uniformly
Minimum Variance Unbiased Estimator (UMVUE) for various parametric
functions, wherever possible is done. Various estimators and
characteristics are studied with the support of numerical examples.